Australian fantasy pop duo Empire of the Sun come fourth on the BBC's Sound of 2009 list.

Glasvegas on their sell-out gig to a home crowd at Glasgow's Barrowlands.

A film by psychedelic popsters The Flaming Lips is released this week after seven years in the making.

Mitch Mitchell, the British drummer in the seminal 1960s band the Jimi Hendrix Experience, dies.

As a keyboardist and songwriter, Richard Wright helped create the psychedelic, pioneering sound that made Pink Floyd one of the world's greatest groups.

BBC Scotland political reporter John Knox sniffs the air as the Scottish Parliament returns after the summer break

The 2008 Olympics begin with a lavish opening ceremony in front of a 90,000 crowd at Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium.

Singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, who wooed the Cambridge Folk Festival crowd, talks to the BBC.

An exhibition charting the history of the Beatles goes on display at a north Wales castle.

The avant-garde film-maker and artist Bruce Conner dies at the age of 74 at his home in San Francisco.

The first band to play at the first Glastonbury Festival have returned to perform at the event again 38 years on.

Coldplay have hailed their new album, Viva La Vida Or Death To All His Friends as the start of a new era.

A commute depicted in plants and a George Harrison memorial are among the biographical gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show. But even a potted plant on the sill says something about the person who tends it.

BBC News reports from the Chelsea Flower Show, the biggest event in the gardening calendar.

Sixty-three years ago the first acid trip was taken by unwitting chemist Albert Hofmann. To its detractors LSD is a dangerous drug, but did its advent change society in Britain and even the way we eat?

A museum at Winston Churchill's former home in Kent is restored to its original design scheme.

US rock band Grateful Dead donate their memorabilia and group archives to the University of California.

South Africa's Trevor Immelman leads Brandt Snedeker by one shot after day two of the Masters.

Portishead have taken 10 years to finish their latest album - and it's a definite break with the past.

Estelle and Duffy both maintain their places at the top of the UK single and album charts.